Hi there,
A couple of days ago I discussed with a friend our common future of flight simming. The question was what to do if MS realizes the announcement of Steve Ballmer (the former CEO) about "Windows as a service" quite some years ago? Actually, Win 365 is the first step, heavily promoted now - even for private use. What, if this solution is going to happen as the only possibility one day? As I never believed that Google's motto "don't be evil" ever was their guideline in running their real business, I'm not keen working in a cloud and someone is looking all the time over my shoulder. MS is trying hard following the same path as Google and others regarding data collection.
The answer was quite easy: X-Plane 12 or higher, but installed on a Linux system. I'm using here a dual-boot system and when I'm not running MSFS I'm almost all the time doing all I need with Linux (Mint Cinnamon, being quite close to Windows in some aspects). As even companies and public authorities are changing towards FOSS, I personally hope that devs could decide opening a second path as well.
Now my questions:
Please, don't hit me - these are just some thoughts. X-Plane is technically the better simulator, MSFS has much more eye candy, both have their market. TDS offers an add-on as real a possible for both. Why not becoming more independent from the OS? I know some people who would like that.
Best to all of you!
A couple of days ago I discussed with a friend our common future of flight simming. The question was what to do if MS realizes the announcement of Steve Ballmer (the former CEO) about "Windows as a service" quite some years ago? Actually, Win 365 is the first step, heavily promoted now - even for private use. What, if this solution is going to happen as the only possibility one day? As I never believed that Google's motto "don't be evil" ever was their guideline in running their real business, I'm not keen working in a cloud and someone is looking all the time over my shoulder. MS is trying hard following the same path as Google and others regarding data collection.
The answer was quite easy: X-Plane 12 or higher, but installed on a Linux system. I'm using here a dual-boot system and when I'm not running MSFS I'm almost all the time doing all I need with Linux (Mint Cinnamon, being quite close to Windows in some aspects). As even companies and public authorities are changing towards FOSS, I personally hope that devs could decide opening a second path as well.
Now my questions:
- Has anybody tried running TDS GTNxi under WineHQ?
- Will it be ever thinkable that this piece of software could be originally compiled for (e.g.) any Debian based Linux to run together with X-Plane?
Yes, I know that depends as well on Garmin's future policy - at least I think so.
Please, don't hit me - these are just some thoughts. X-Plane is technically the better simulator, MSFS has much more eye candy, both have their market. TDS offers an add-on as real a possible for both. Why not becoming more independent from the OS? I know some people who would like that.
Best to all of you!